Throwback Thursday Photo, Doughboy’s Goodbye
A long kiss goodbye. Today’s Throwback Thursday photograph captures an American doughboy saying goodbye to his girl in Lincoln, Nebraska on September 5, ...
Lincoln
What We Found
Is the NSHS Even Older Than We Thought?
Recently a sharp-eyed researcher discovered something about the Nebraska State Historical Society that escaped everyone here for nearly 150 years. It reveals Nebraska ...
Shocking Medical Breakthroughs
From the snake oil salesmen of the past to the infomercial pitchmen of today, the public has been bombarded with devices, diets, and medicines promising relief from ...
It’s All in Your Head
Phrenology bust and chart belonging to Frederick Blaine Humphrey of Lincoln. Phrenology was a popular nineteenth-century pseudoscience that claimed a person's ...
Politics Makes for Strange Campaign Memorabilia
As the saying goes, politics makes for strange bedfellows. Although in the case of these items developed for Nebraska political candidates, it might be more accurate to ...
Silly Structures or Artful Architecture?
Can you tell what this building is supposed to be?
A strange alien, a bizarre monster? It is a restaurant shaped like a mug (or at least it's supposed to look that ...
Pioneer Zephyr’s Giant Knife
Giant knife, used to cut cake celebrating the 10 year anniversary of the Pioneer Zephyr, Lincoln, 1944. (Source: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, ...
Fascination, the Space Age Transportation Innovation
The Fascination, touted as a "Space Age Transportation Innovation" by its inventor, Paul M. Lewis, was produced by the Highway Aircraft Corporation of Sidney in 1974. ...
Armadillo Basket
Decline in Armadillo Population Linked to Fashionable Basket Increase
Armadillo baskets became popular after the 1902 New York World's Fair, where they were first ...
Preliminary Operation Survival Plan
This Preliminary Operational Survival Plan names Columbus as the new capital of Nebraska in the event of Lincoln's destruction by a nuclear attack.
Source: Nebraska ...
Lincoln Car Drives Itself
Auto-driving demonstration equipment (Source: Leland M. Hancock, Lincoln, NSHS 10582-7)
This M-1 vehicle detector is from the first automatic driving demonstration ...
Nebraska Was Once a Leader in the U.S. Aviation History
In the early 1920s Charles Lindbergh, one of America's most celebrated pilots, learned to fly at the Lincoln Flying School, operated by Ray Page of the Lincoln Standard ...
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